This year celebrates ten years of Essential Looks from Schwarzkopf Professional.  The Essential Looks collections capture the essence of the catwalks from the world’s fashion capitals, delivering relevant, inspiring, insightful trend images and information right into your lap. Schwarzkopf Professional has documented a decade of fashion evolution, producing gorgeous visual imagery that successfully captures the zeitgeist every season.  For Autumn/Winter 2007/2008, the Essential Looks presents its “Modern Life Collection.”
 
With four distinctive moods: Minimalist, Glitterati, Boys Own and Femme Fatale, the “Modern Life Collection” draws upon the current runway trends, with expressive looks, accentuated cuts and bold colours.  Like the haute couture shows of the leading fashion designers, the Essential Looks deliver an inspiring summary of the season's key trends to hairdressers around the globe, which serve as a source of inspiration for them to create modern, up-to-the-minute cuts and colours.

Each of the four fashion moods is expressed in three ways: Essential Trend is an undiluted fashion forward look.  Essential Style is a commercial interpretation, and Essential Dressing provides editorial perspective.  Global Editorial Ambassador for Schwarzkopf Professional, Tyler Johnston explains “Our latest collection, Modern Life is a really fresh direction for the catwalks; it’s a real reflection of today’s society. Every designer has contributed to the fashion melting pot in their own individual way, which has produced something totally eclectic. Each fashion mood within Modern Life is a story with depth, and I predict lots of salon clients will find it very liberating.”

Steve Hogan, Creative Director for Schwarzkopf Professional Essential Looks is happy with the result: “Modern Life is the perfect collection to wrap up our tenth anniversary year. We have looks that inspire people to express their personal style with flair. Essential Looks has never strayed from its primary purpose of giving our clients usable and accessible interpretations from the catwalk – and we are really proud of that!”

Discover the four new distinctive Essential Looks in our slideshow and get inspired by the trends for the upcoming season.
 

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Minimalist Trend

Must-Haves: Strong shapes in hair and clothes.  Muted tones and shiny fabrics. Layers. Structured simplicity.

This trend is clean, simple and strong.  Structure and graphic style are ever present on the catwalks.  Simple shapes and strong outlines are blended and layered with thoughtful complexity.  (Gamine cropped-out lengths with) contrasting layers merge with clean classic bobs.

Minimalist Style

Blocks of colour or solid tones in jet black and claret add depth.  Wide solid fringes frame the face or dip in an asymmetric curve.  Chignons and slim pony tails make the look tight, clean and glossy.

Minimalist Dressing

Fashion: From ‘A’ line dresses and narrow silhouettes of YSL to the cinched waists and shiny fabrics of Marni, the overwhelming tones are dark grey, dove, black and silver.  Makeup is also muted with pale even complexions, nude lips and natural eyes and brows.

Glitterati Trend  

Must-Haves: Volume.  Countless curls.  Gorgeous conditioned hair. Fur bomber jacket.  Feather trim.  Satin jumpsuits.  Gold accessories.  Skirts and dresses in maxi or mini length.  The new wave in seventies glamour’. The gauzy maxi length animal prints and satin jumpsuits finished with gold accessories at Dolce & Gabbana were evocative of vintage Studio 54. This is the perfect excuse to dress up in high luxe fabrics and super glamorous fur, feather and jewels.
 

Glitterati Style

The mood is stylised, expensive and ultra elegant. It’s the season for big blow drys, curls, waves and texture but above all ultimate condition. Fringes were big news – heavy, flicked or chunky and dishevelled.  

Glitterati Dressing

With colours like auburn, gold and ruby in luminous shades, Glitterati is a chance for the world to take on seventies glamour and make it a truly fashion moment.  Makeup is all about the eyes – eyeliner, jet black lashes plus hints of smoky black burnished with gold, pink and green.

Boys Own Trend

Must-Haves: Cable knits and oversized cardi’s  Quilted coats.  Donkey jackets.  Military tailoring.  Layers.  Ankle length.  Mid-length hair.  Metallic accessories.  Flashes of neon brights.  

Boys Own is full of ‘mannish allure’. These men (and women) are bending the rules and blurring the edges of tradition. You don’t have to be all man to wear this trend.

Boys Own Style

Hair is a sculpted mix of button down school boy polish with clean finishes and length with strong broken outlines.  There are face framing styles that accentuate bone structure and mid length looks with choppy textures or glossy finishes.  Colours are smudgy blonde or darks shot through with gold.

Boys Own Dressing

With fashion, Boys Own stands for modern tailoring with a rough urban edge in navy, army green and dark grey. Tailored tight pin stripe trousers skim the ankle (paired with oversized cable knits) at Burberry while the cuffs of oversized cable knits hang below a super smart grey cashmere trench. Dries Van Noten captured this juxtaposition of formal tailoring and casual deconstructed style with his donkey jackets and metallic oxford shoes.

Femme Fatale Trend

Must-haves: Sparkles and lace. Leather and PVC.  Coquettish silhouettes. Rich fabrics. Choppy, dishevelled textures. Attitude! 

Tyler Johnson explains, "Femme Fatale could be seen in so many different ways on the catwalk.  There was plenty of leather and finger hugging silhouettes, but there was also luxurious fabrics and decorative detail.  It's licence to go a bit wild and the hair reflects that."

Femme Fatale Dressing
Femme Fatale delivers ‘contrasts in feminine beauty’. It is soft, sexy and glamorous with erotic dishevelled textures and graphic sculptural head shapes.  From the beaded bustiers at John Richmond to the leather and PVC mini dress at Gareth Pugh, this mood has a split personality.

Femme Fatale Dressing

Hair is piled, pulled, blown and tossed.  There are voluptuous curls and sumptuous waves alongside soft, sleek finishes.  High shine, laminated finishes and pops of contrasting colour make the Femme Fatale strong, powerful and seductive. Colours are washed out golds, strawberry blondes and resonant browns.  Full lips and warm complexions with lined eyes and luscious lashes are de rigueur for Femme Fatale.

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